Jane Austen Quotes
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.Jane Austen
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken -
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
R. Kelly -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
Quincy Jones -
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
Jack McDevitt
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra -
My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
Harry Caray -
Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
Kate Moss -
The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
Quentin Blake
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
Jose Bergamin -
I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
Adam Carolla -
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
Malala Yousafzai -
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
Ian Mcewan -
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Jane Austen